Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:29:14 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation Message-ID: <4B69CE8A.1050300@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20100203064734.GC1920@comcast.net> References: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> <87vdefgtbx.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100202231840.GB1920@comcast.net> <87k4uvgp5o.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100203064734.GC1920@comcast.net>
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Charlie Kester wrote: > On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 16:04:51 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800, Charlie Kester >> <corky1951@comcast.net> wrote: >>> On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 14:34:42 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>>> I've been trying Rhythmbox too lately. It also recognizes IDv3 tags, >>>> has playlist support, podcast download and archive support, last.fm >>>> integration and online streaming radio support. Some bits of the UI >>>> are, to put it mildly, "dumped down". This is a common problem of many >>>> Gnome applications these days, it seems. I've only used it for about a >>>> week or two now, so I can't really say if I _like_ it yet. >>> >>> I've been trying Exaile and Rhythmbox too. I think I prefer Rhythmbox, >>> because it handles my .m3u playlists in the way I like. It immediately >>> lists them in the sidebar under Playlists, and they persist there from >>> session to session. >> >> Yes, that's a really _nice_ feature of Rhythmbox :-) >> >> When I am trying to 'enter the zone' and code for 3-4 hours without jumps >> from one context to another, I often load a large m3u playlist to >> Rhythmbox >> and let it repeat itself forever. Then I start writing and lose >> myself in >> the process of creating things instead of going back and forth between my >> terminal and the player in an effort to "keep the playlist filled with >> nice >> music". >> >> The context switch from the work I am going to the player is always >> hurtful >> for my concentration, so persistent playlists help me avoid it as much >> as possible. > > OTOH, if I want continuous random playback of a playlist without the > overhead of a graphical music manager, I go with > > mpg123 -C -Z -@ playlist.m3u > > in a terminal window. To make it easier to launch this by clicking the > m3u file in a file manager like Thunar, I have a desktop settings file > for it. ~/.local/share/applications/mpg123-random-usercreated.desktop: > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Type=Application > Terminal=true > Name=mpg123-random > Exec=mpg123 -C -Z -@ %F > MimeType=audio/mpeg I asked for all opinions, but I need to answer here before my thread gets hijacked. I DON'T WANT GUI-less operation, I don't want random playback. I really do appreciate your response, but what I'm after is the best possible mp3 player GUI for managing the creation and manipulation of playlist driven playback. The only possible reason I have for replying here is to avoid getting all thouse responses from folks who don't like GUIs. Hell, I'm usually in that camp, but not this time. The suggestion I got for musicpd is a player with lots of hooks into GUIs (according to the email) but my playback already works excellently, what I'm after is the GUI, not the server. I've had some great suggestions so far. I think I'll go try amarok first, and maybe rhythmbox next. You folks are REALLY helpful, thanks!! > > Then either I associate this with the .m3u file type in the usual way, > or I leave .m3u associated with something else and use "Open with other > Application" to select mpg123-random. > When I'm deeply immersed in my work, I don't need to see the album cover > and other info the graphical music managers show me about the currently > playing song. mpg123 gives more than enough such info, but I almost > never look at it. (The only reason I run it in a terminal window is to > make it easy to shutdown and to be able to skip past a song I've decided > I no longer like -- hence the use of the -C option.) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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